Fehmida Kapadia

JANUARY 3, 2018

Paradigms of product development have shifted significantly in the last decade. The key tenet of agile and lean development is to quickly and iteratively build?—?test?—?learn. To reduce cost and time associated with the product development cycle, we have to start engaging with our customers early.

Engagement 40

Engagement Tools LEAN Design Thinking 40

Idea Champions

JUNE 26, 2019

The best of these will guide AT&T's development for years to come." - Robert Rubin, CCS Product Development, AT&T. "As As a result of Idea Champions' efforts we have implemented more than 250 value-added Big Idea projects." -- Joe Belinsky, Professional Development Manager, Goodyear Rubber and Tire.

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Brainstorming Entrepreneurship Creativity LEAN 31

Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This is easier said than done, however, as despite their best intentions, companies get snarled in the glaring failures that derail business growth and stagnate profits. Most companies react to change as it occurs. Develop new solutions based on those answers and base your product development on your customer’s future problems.

Collaboration 71

Collaboration Strategy Strategy Competition 71

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

Elon Musk, Alfred Sloan, and entrepreneurship in the automobile industry. If you want to understand the future of Tesla and Elon Musk’s role – something many want to do, given the constant stream of headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20 th Century.

Management 56

Management Company Industry Technical Review 56

Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Waterfall Development. While it sounds simple , the Build Measure Learn approach to product development is a radical improvement over the traditional Waterfall model used throughout the 20 th century to build and ship products. It often took companies three tries to get products right. We can now do better.

Learning 49

Learning LEAN Agile Data 49

Leanstack

MARCH 29, 2018

Even though, his savings ran out 6 months ago, he has hit a comfortable groove using freelance consulting to keep his product development going. He had run into her at an event a few months back and learned that she had also started a new company with a few other co-workers. Rome, after all, wasn’t built in a day.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 26, 2014

StartX , a nonprofit startup accelerator, recently devoted an entire day to the role of design in early-stage companies. All of these approaches are useful, but the trick is to pick the right one for your particular stage of product development. One panel included Laura Klein, Todd Zaki-Warfel, Christina Wodtke, and Mike Long.

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LEAN Design Learning Agile 103

Peer Insight

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Our CEO, Natalie Foley, breaks it down into simple terms and describes how a business model develops around a consumer need and evolves quickly through testing that de-risks concepts.

Marketing 40

Marketing Creativity Learning Examples 40

Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

“What does it take to create a Unicorn – a company that achieves a valuation of $1 Billion or more within five years of first opening their doors and why are there more of them than ever? In this article I look under the covers of 34 of the worlds’ fastest growth companies to reveal all the techniques they have in common.”.

Marketing 40

Marketing Competition Disruption Company 40

Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Company Executives are increasingly compelled to report profit in percentage terms so naturally they promote and reward the behaviours that increase margins. Almost from the start of its journey Steve Jobs and the Executive Board shaped Apple into an innovative Design company and this is an important distinction to make.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Software Review Competition Course 40

Idea Champions

APRIL 11, 2024

Brush, Chair: Entrepreneurship Division, Babson College "The Idea Champions team brings a creative, energetic and fun approach to idea generation. "Through your brainstorm facilitation, we gained more than 100 original ideas of high quality.

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Brainstorming Training Ideation Idea Generation 26

Matthew Griffin

JUNE 1, 2015

Today technology and digital have lowered the bar to entry and the number of people around the world starting companies has risen ten fold to 100 million and the number of patent applications has risen six fold.

Disruption 40

Disruption Industry Competition Marketing 40

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. If the answer is yes, here’s a step-by-step guide to help set one up.

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. If the answer is yes, here’s a step-by-step guide to help set one up.

Underperforming Technical Team 56

Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 56

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. If the answer is yes, here’s a step-by-step guide to help set one up.

Underperforming Technical Team 40

Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 40

Idea to Value

JUNE 3, 2017

You can see his full speech in the video above, and read it below, but there were a few very important quotes which are relevant for anyone looking to find their next big idea, or build the next innovative company, that we can all learn from. There were all these big technology companies with resources. It tore our company apart.

Entrepreneurship 104

Entrepreneurship Project Video Culture 104

Innovation 360 Group

AUGUST 25, 2019

The creativity of a single division or even a single company alone is rarely enough to overcome the inertia of “the way it’s always been.” Companies—and successful innovations—do not exist in isolation, but in an interlinked network of businesses, partners, clients and customers, embedded in an intricately connected world. Key Insight.

Case Study 51

Case Study Underperforming Technical Team Project Study 51

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. In our last post, we addressed the six key questions that senior management should address to determine if an Innovation Outpost makes sense for a company. How do you staff it? Silicon Valley, Boston).

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Underperforming Technical Team How To Innovation Disruption 35

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Today, large companies are creating Innovation Outposts in Innovation Clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. Will an Innovation Outpost provide results at the speed we need?

How To 38

How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 38

Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 2, 2018

In organisations, we compensate sales guys on sales made, product managers on product development, marketing folks on leads generated, manufacturing folks on operational efficiency. We optimise our time, our money and at times even our relationships. We want maximum efficiency in almost everything that we do.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review System Design Product Development 40

Rmukesh Gupta

MARCH 2, 2018

In organisations, we compensate sales guys on sales made, product managers on product development, marketing folks on leads generated, manufacturing folks on operational efficiency. We optimise our time, our money and at times even our relationships. We want maximum efficiency in almost everything that we do.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review System Design Product Development 40

Matthew Griffin

JUNE 9, 2015

Uber, the world’s largest Taxi company doesn’t own any vehicles, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube three of the world’s most popular media sites don’t create any content, Alibaba the world’s most valuable retailer has no inventory and Airbnb the world’s largest accommodation provider doesn’t own any real estate. Six degrees is now four.

Disruption 40

Disruption Ideation Marketing Policies 40

Econic

MAY 22, 2019

Like all companies, however, Gerber needs to innovate and grow. Since Gerber had already built such a strong brand with parents, they had a hunch that the best place to expand was by providing more products to parents. But, like all companies, Gerber needed to grow. But there is a reason why 90% of all new companies fail.

How To 40

How To Marketing Design Learning 40

Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

When Nikon and Cannon were reviewing the market for new competitive threats do you think they investigated the mobile phone companies? When Accor and Hilton were reviewing the market do you think they investigated the rental market?

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Disruption Industry Marketing 40

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Today, large companies are creating Innovation Outposts in Innovation Clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. Corporate Leadership’s Innovation Outpost Decision Process 
.

How To 67

How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 67

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Today, large companies are creating Innovation Outposts in Innovation Clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. Corporate Leadership’s Innovation Outpost Decision Process 
.

How To 67

How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 67

Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

I first met Steve Blank when he started his enterprise software company Epiphany. Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. In the U.S. We’re now in the middle of the fourth.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 49

Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

I first met Steve Blank when he started his enterprise software company Epiphany. Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. In the U.S. We’re now in the middle of the fourth.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 49

Corporate Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

I first met Steve Blank when he started his enterprise software company Epiphany. Steve has spent 21 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur in eight startups and the last 13 years as an educator – currently teaching entrepreneurship at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and NYU. In the U.S. We’re now in the middle of the fourth.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 40

Corporate Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Steve and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship. Today, large companies are creating Innovation Outposts in Innovation Clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. Corporate Leadership’s Innovation Outpost Decision Process 
.

How To 40

How To Disruption Innovation Entrepreneurship 40

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

During the last three years he’s worked with over 100 companies, many of which established Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley. He’s now helping companies get the most out of their relationships with Silicon Valley. Evangelos and I are working on what we hope will become a book about the new model for corporate entrepreneurship.

Technical Review 41

Technical Review Disruption Innovation Technology 41